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The All Progressives Congress (APC) successful Borno has reduced its information signifier interest for women and persons consenting to enactment successful the December 13 section authorities elections.
Alhaji Bello Ayuba, the APC authorities Chairman, made this known astatine a quality league connected Friday successful Maiduguri.
Ayuba announced that the enactment had fixed Councillorship forms for women and physically challenged aspirants astatine N250,000 and Chairmanship forms astatine N1 million, representing a 50 per cent simplification from the modular fees.
The president said that modular fees stay N500,000 for councillorship and N2 cardinal for chairmanship.
Ayuba said that the interest accommodation was made aft consultations with different enactment members successful Katsina and Lagos states.
He said that the determination was aimed astatine ensuring inclusivity and giving women and persons with disabilities an adjacent accidental to enactment successful the elections.
He, however, assured the party’s committedness to conducting free, fair, and transparent primaries, giving aspirants adjacent accidental to contest.
“Whosoever is consenting to contention for chairmanship oregon councilorship, arsenic agelong arsenic they are members of the party, the doorway is unfastened to all,” Ayuba said.
The APC has besides concluded the signifier of the forms process and volition soon commence the screening of the aspirants for the 27 section authorities chairmanship positions and 320 ward councilorships.
“Even successful cases wherever determination is lone 1 aspirant successful a section authorities oregon ward, affirmation exercises volition beryllium conducted to guarantee acceptance by enactment structures.
“Following screening and affirmation, the enactment volition guardant the database of approved candidates to the Borno State Independent Electoral Commission (BORSEC) to alteration them to unafraid forms and hole for the main elections.
“Larger committees volition besides beryllium constituted astatine assorted levels crossed each Local Government Areas to guarantee transparency and adherence to enactment guidelines,” helium said.
Ayuba urged enactment members to stay peaceful during the electoral process, saying APC was determined to uphold antiauthoritarian principles and present credible elections crossed the state.
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